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...which explains why a group of engineers from the Icelandic power company Enex have left the pure air of Reykjavk behind to work in smoggy Xianyang. The ancient Chinese city might just have the geothermal resources to become the Reykjavk of the East. In December engineers from both countries completed the first stage of a joint venture that could eventually provide geothermal-powered heating to millions of people in Xianyang. If the project is successful, the city will eventually have the biggest such system in the world...
...although a rather impersonal version of one. One particular evening in 1929, the year he turned 50, captures Einstein's middle-age deistic faith. He and his wife were at a dinner party in Berlin when a guest expressed a belief in astrology. Einstein ridiculed the notion as pure superstition. Another guest stepped in and similarly disparaged religion. Belief in God, he insisted, was likewise a superstition...
...effects and no kidney damage. And melamine has a very low level of toxicity to rodents. "It looks like it [the melamine] is causing direct cell death in the kidneys and this is not something we would have expected to happen," says Goldstein. "I don't think it's pure melamine. Maybe there is some kind of reaction with the metabolism of melamine that would cause this...
...Plainer fare such as wild mushroom arancini with leek purée, white asparagus emulsion and cep vinaigrette showcase the intense flavors of locally grown vegetables. Hall says: "I let the ingredients speak for themselves." Luckily it's in a language even linguistically challenged bohemians will understand. The results: pure poetry, and worth braving the odd bull for. www.casablanca-gaucin.com
...pity for he might discover that despite my accent I might have something worthwhile to say. My late colleague Porter Professor Emeritus Sydney J. Freedberg, among our most distinguished of art historians and a native Bostonian, was asked where he got his plumy accent. He replied, “pure affectation.” I admired his dismissal of an impertinent inquiry, but I acquired my tongue the old fashioned way: I was born with it. Transfers to Purdue, Mr. Bartenstein, I hear are not too hard to come...